Mr. Samuel Boama Danso, who has been ordered by the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs to stop carrying himself as the chief of the Nkwatia has once again defied an order by the Kwahu East District Assembly District Security Council to install two sub-chiefs.
The Eastern Regional House of Chiefs (ERHC) some months ago, served notice to forcefully eject Samuel Boama Danso from the Kwahu Nkwatia Palace when a challenge against his enstoolment is yet to be determined.
The Registrar, Richmond Perseus, in his letter to the police, explained that the planned ejection of the disgruntled chief follows a ruling delivered by the Judicial Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs which ordered him (the Registrar) to take over the palace and all properties belonging to the Nkwatia Stool.
The said operations were supposed to carry out on Thursday, April 29, 2021.
But Mr. Boama quickly petitions the National House of chiefs to block the Regional Judicial Committee decision and has since refused to move out from the palace.
Last week, he wrote to the Nkawkaw Divisional Police Command to provide him security to install two sub-chiefs that’s Kyidomhene and Nkosuohene which his rival counterparts also write to the Police to stop him, since there is a ruling against him.
The Police then took the matter to the District Security Council meeting, where an order was given to him to stop such installation of the two sub-chiefs for peace to prevail in the town.
But Mr. Boama defied the DISEC order and deployed self-acclaimed security men to the town to undertake the installation of the two sub-chiefs under tight security without the presence of the police last Saturday.
The forecourt of the Kwahu-Nkwatia Chief Palace was flooded red with friends and family bused from other towns of the two newly installed chiefs.
Samuel Boama Danso, according to the House, was illegally installed as chief of Nkwatia in October 2020 with a stool name Nana Boama Ayiripe II, by the Krontihene of Nkwatia – Nana Odei Tutu Ababio and section of stool elders and kingmakers under heavy military and police protection.
His installation was later challenged by the queen mother of the town, Nana Agyeiwaa Kodie, II, and nine others at the Judicial Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs who found no reason in her application.
The petition was initially dismissed by the Judicial Committee of Kwahu Traditional Council on October 16, 2020, before the petitioners appealed at the Regional House of Chiefs.
They subsequently applied for an interlocutory injunction on November 20, 2020, against the respondent from carrying himself as chief of Nkwatia, which has been granted in a ruling delivered on March 24, 2021, by the Judicial committee pending the final determination of the substantive case.
“In considering the application, therefore, Nananom was granted the application restraining the respondents from dealing with or doing anything at the chief’s palace at Nkwatia in any manner or whatsoever pending final determination of this appeal.
“However, to preserve the stool property affected by this dispute and so that the Palace will be fully secured, Nananom hereby orders the Registrar of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs to take possession of the Palace until the final determination of the Appeal,” the letter read.
Meanwhile, there is a contempt case against him before the Koforidua High Court, which is expected to be heard Monday.
A protracted chieftaincy dispute rendered the Kwahu-Nkwatia Stool vacant for three years after the death of Nana Atuobi Yiadom IV in 2016, who reigned for 60 years.
